Improvement in sash-holders



strip for upper sash, locking the sash when down, or I holding it atanydesired height when raised.

amid $156022 JOHN H. MORSE, or

PE O RIA, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 114,842, dated May 16,1871.

[M PROVEM ENT IN SASH-HOLDERS.

The Schedule referred. to In these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

I, JOHN H. Mouse, of Peoria, county of Peoria and State of Illinois,have invented an Improved Sash-Holder, of which the following'is aspecification.

' My improvement consists in affixing in a hole bored int-he edge of aWindow-sash a metallic cas'e cou-taining a hanging bolt, operated by akey passing through the sash, and'forcing the end of. the bolt intoniches cut in the front stop for lower sash, and into p'arting Figure 1is a perspective view of frame and sash. Figure 2 is an end elevation. 1Figure3 is a plan of end elevation.

Figure 4 is elevation of sash-holder.

Figure 5 is section of same..

7 Figure 6 is section plan.

A, fig. 1, is the. window-frame.

B, the sash.

G, metallic case containing the bolt D, with its corrugated nose 0'.

.E, thumb-piece of key E, passing through the sash and bolt and centerof metallic case 0, as seen in figs. 5 and 6. Y

Lug F on key E operates the bolt, as seen in fig. 4.

B B, front stop, and

m m m niches cut in front stop. (See fig.2.

To afiix the sash-holder to a window-sash, bore a hole in edge ofwindow-sash, right-hand side, the size of metallic case 0, about one andone-quarter of an inch, and the depth of case 0, three-eighths of aninch. (See fig. 5.) From the center of this hole the remainder of theway through the sash, a hole the size of the body of key E,three-eighths of an inch.

Out a slot from front of sash through into large .hole, scven-eighths ofan inch long and depth of hole, as seen at 00, fig. 2, to allow thecorrugated nose t of bolt D to project. (See figs. 1, 2, and 4.)

' Now pass the key E into the small hole up to the thumb-piece E, withleft hand holding-thumb-piece' E'to the front. (See fig. 1 Place thebolt D in large hole, with corrugated nose '5 in cut 0 o, and leg f onkey E in slo't-h of bolt D. (See fig. 4.) Place the metal case 0 overthe whole, with lug e on key E (see fig. 6) in position to enter slot d(see-fig. 4;) in metal case. v

Press the metal case 6 intothe hole in the sash until the lug e on key Ehas passed through slot at in metal case 0. Turn metal case 0 over tothe left,

-b, a passing through case and bolt into the sash.

The lug f on key E, working in slot h of bolt D,

will operate the bolt, and lug e on bolt D will prevent the key E frombeing withdrawn from sash, To raise the sash, the window being closed,take hold of it with the lefthand, turn up the thumb-piece E with theright hand, raise the sash, letting go the thumb-piece E; and when thecorrugated nose't' of bolt D comes opposite one of the niches in m m infront stop B B, the bolt will drop of its own weight, and nose '1? willenter niche m, and be held in that position.

If you wish to lower the sash, start it upward with the left hand, turnup the thumb-piece E with right hand; this will withdraw the corrugatednose 0'. from niche m, and the saslrmay be lowered.

When the sash is closed the thumb-piece E will turn down of its ownweight, the nose/i will be projected in to niche m, thelower nichembeing cut the full depthof corrugated nose '5, lug f on keyE will turn(position shown in fig. 4) down, and projection x on bolt D will come incontact with lngj' and prevent nose 4? from being forced back, thuslocking the sash securely.

0' Min.

I claim as my inventionthe combination of the key'E with lug e andrecessed face-plate, the key E passing through a recessed. andshouldered bolt working at right angles to the key, all as shown anddescribed, for the purpose set forth.

JOHN MORSE. Witnesses JAMES M. Monsn, AUBURN A. Hownn).

